Neuroscience Faculty and Their Research Interests
If available, links are provided to each faculty member's website in their home department.
- Louise Abbott: Morphological,
biochemical, molecular and electrophysical changes in the central nervous
system during development of neurological disorders in tottering mice.
- Paul Brandt:
Calcium homeostasis; calcium-dependent regulation of steroid receptors; exrpession
of alpha integrins.
- Gerald Bratton: Mechanisms by which lead enters the body and produces
toxicity; nutritional influences on lead intoxication; heavy metal effects
on reproductive function.
- Vincent Cassone: Behaviorial
neurobiology; neurobiology of biological clocks; mechanisms of melatonin action.
- Antonio
Cepeda-Benito: Associative and nonassociative drug tolerance with
emphasis on morphine and nicotine.
- Thomas Champney:
Role of the pineal in seasonal and circadian rhythms; modulation of epilepsy
and immune function by the pineal and its hormone, melatonin.
- Wei-Jung Chen:
Neurotoxicology, teratology, and developmental psychobiology.
- Joan Coates: Congenital and inherited neurologic disorders; neurosurgery;
brain tumors; degenerative myelopathy.
- Sumana
Datta: Development of
the central nervous system in Drosophila melanogaster.
- W. Les Dees: Molecular and physiological approaches for assessing
neuroendocrine factors controlling and/or affecting the onset of female puberty.
- Douglas P. Dohrman:
Cellular mechanisms of drug addiction; alcohol and nicotine interactions;
signal transduction.
- David Earnest:
Neurobiology of mammalian circadian rhythms and their regulation by light-dark
signals.
- Gerald Frye:
Neuropharmacology of ethanol intoxication, tolerance, physical dependence
and the fetal alcohol syndrome; GABA receptor adaptation in the regulation
of neuronal excitability and in brain development; brain slice electrophysiology,
primary neuronal culture and whole cell patch-clamp recording.
- John Gelderd:
Pathophysiological processes occurring following spinal cord injury; methods
to promote neural regeneration.
- Theresa
A. Good: Development of in vitro models of neurodegeneration; spongiform
encephalopathy; glaucoma.
- James Grau : Learning and
memory, spinal plasticity, and pain modulation.
- William Griffith:
Neurobiology of aging; cellular basis of epilepsy; brain slice electrophysiology
and pharmacology; patch-clamp and single-channel recording of voltage and
transmitter-activated currents.
- Paul Harms:
Reproductive physiology; endocrine regulation of pregnancy.
- William Klemm:
Brain mechanisms of alcohol intoxication; identification of bovine sex pheromones;
effects of odor on electroencephalography; neuronal information processing.
- Julian L. Leibowitz:
Replication and gene expression of murine conronaviruses; molecular basis
of pathogenesis of murine conronavirus-induced hepatitis and demyelinating
disease.
- Mary Meagher: Pain modulation;
animal models of anxiety and mood disorders; learning and memory.
- Rajesh Miranda:
Roles of gonadal estradiol-17b and neurotrophins
in the GABAergic neurons of the cerebral cortex; development of circuits involved
in cognitive and affective behaviors.
- Jack Nation:
Neurochemical and neurobehavioral effects associated with environmental pollutants
and drugs of abuse.
- Cecil
Reynolds: Neuropsychology of memory in children; relationship of affective
disorder to neuropsychological processing deficits.
- Cynthia Riccio: Pediatric neuropsychology and the neuropsychological
sequelae of various developmental disorders such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder and learning disabilities.
- Ian Russell:
Neural plasticity and mechanisms of learning and memory; recovery of visual
function following cortical frontal eye-field lesions.
- Farida Sohrabji: Role of gonadal hormones (estrogen) in the neurobiology
of cognitive diseases; estrogen-neurotrophin regulation of adult and aging
forebrain cholinergic circuits.
- George Stoica:
Mechanism(s) of retroviral-induced neurodegeneration.
- Ralph Storts:
Comparative neuropathology with particular interest in demyelinating diseases
of the central and peripheral nervous systems.
- Evelyn
Tiffany-Castiglioni: Cellular mechanisms of neurotoxicity; functions
of neuroglia; astroglial response to disease and trauma; cellular mechanisms
of epilepsy.
- Ronald B. Tjalkens: Research efforts focus on the role of heavy metals
in Parkinson's Disease and the molecular regulation of inducible nitric oxide
synthase in astrocytes in normal and pathophysiologic states.
- Paul Wellman:
Neurochemical basis for feeding and food intake.
- Gregg B. Wells:
Structure and function of neurotransmitter gated ion channels, including nicotinic
acetylcholine, serotonin 5HT3, glycine, and GABAA receptors and cyclic nucleotide
gated channels; role of protein structure in disease; clinical neuropathology.
- Robert
Wells: DNA structure; triplet repeats; human hereditary neuromuscular
diseases.
- C. Jane Welsh: Neurotropic
viruses; autoimmune diseases of nervous system cerebrovascular endothelial
cells; Theilers virus as a model of multiple schlerosis.
- James West:
Fetal alcohol syndrome and factors that influence the risk and severity of
brain damage resulting from alcohol and other drugs of abuse during development.
- Ursula H. Winzer-Serhan:
Developmental neuropharmacology; effects of nicotine on the developing brain;
gene regulation by nicotinic receptor activation.
- Keith A. Young: The genetics, cell biology, neuropathology and treatment
of brain diseases.
- Mark Zoran: Developmental
neurobiology; molecular determinants of synaptogenesis and synaptic specificity;
mechanisms of synaptic plasticity.
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